Third round of talks on Canal crisis fail
PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli’s hopes of a happy ending to the third round of talks between the Panama Canal Authority (ACP)...
Month: February 2014
No water alert for San Miguelito, Panama City
PANAMA’S Water and sewer agency, Idaan, announced Tuesday, February 4, that there will be another interruption in water service in...
Navarro lays out plan for agriculture
PRD PRESIDENTIAL candidate Juan Carlos Navarro met with milk producers in Chiriquí on Tuesday to explain his plans for the...
La Prensa barred from covering hospital groundbreaking
ONLY days after Bloomberg published a scathing report on Panama, including media restrictions, the government, on Tuesday, February 4, prevented...
Pensioners get $30 raise
ELECTION campaigns can be good times for some people as goodies are handed out, or promised, by competing politicians, with...
Presidential and Mayoralty races likely photo finishes
WHOEVER WINS Panama’s presidential election in May will have had most of the country going to the polls to vote...
Panama legislators on a busmans holiday
MOST OF Panama’s legislators are avoiding attendance at their place of work, for which they are paid at least $7,000...
Snooper computer data base to be amended
A COMPUTER database for CD candidate José Domingo Arias has been altered to remove information that had troubled some observers....
Martinelli defends CD data base, VP candidate, ex-Foreign Minister
President Ricardo Martinelli was in defense mode on Monday, February 3, at the end of a meeting with diplomatic representatives. (more…)
Bad weather delays Riveras return to Panama
WINTER storms in the United States have delayed the return of Major League Baseball’s greatest all time closing pitcher to...
Panama Stock Exchange boss receiving death threats
THE MAN who set off an investigation into the Pacific Financial brokerage for fraud and money laundering has asked for...
Panama must remain neutral in foreign affairs – VP candidate
AS PRESIDENT Ricardo Martinelli named his fifth Foreign Minister in the last four years, the Vice Presidential candidate for the...
